Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler is also scheduled to deliver a lecture called "Seamus Heaney's 'Mycenae Lookout': The Use of Tradition" in the Thompson Parlor of the Barker Center...
...Harvard Square ice cream parlor popular with students closed last month after three years in business...
...cream parlor also offered a variety oftoppings and fillings...
...just this proximity that fuels the current Capitol parlor game: What did Hillary know, and when did she know it? Writer and television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason says it's ludicrous to think that Hillary knew her husband had been involved with Lewinsky in her very own house but defended him anyway. "Anyone who thinks Hillary knew what happened before the two of them had their conversation wasn't there that weekend. The second floor of the White House was a somber place." Until then, the President had told Hillary that he had befriended Monica and that she had taken...
Mount's preferred tone was down-home and nationalist: he was the first artist to paint the Yankee as a type. He painted barn dances, parlor courtships, farmers husking corn, truant children and jolly drunks. "Never paint for the few but for the many," he reminded himself in one of the numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer...